these are not housing. they are what is known as non-housing housing. they are speculative investments. so i would urge you to take that into consideration. thank you so much, and thank you for introducing this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> members of the board of supervisors, my name is greg pennington, i moved here at age 20 in 1977. i've lived in the same apartment for 42 years. and to my horror, veritas just bought my apartment building about three months ago. during that three months, the water has been shut off ten times, the elevator is out of service, the intercom is out of service, there are workmen coming in and out all the time, endless construction, continual noise. it's been a total nightmare. and nothing like what i had my first 42 years. i live in district 3, aaron peskin, i'm very happy to have you as my supervisor. thank you for putting forward this legislation. we need affordable housing in this city. i'll tell you right now, my entire life is here. if you allow veritas to put me out on the streets, which is what they want to

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. march 13, 2020. i hereby appoint the honorable susan k. dell ben -- delbene to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. haplain conroy: let us pray. god of mercy, thank you for giving us another day. bless the members of the people's house today. a legislative day in response to the growing impact of the coronavirus. as our leaders near an agreement on an economic stimulus package to combat the effects of the pandemic, send your comforting and encouraging spirit to each one. may they, united in their resolve to serve all your people, put aside the divisions that exist to find an effective response that benefits all, but most especially those who are one or two paychecks removed from long lasting negative impacts beyond the prese

of the house.n a the senate, it is the vice president. but the key difference is that vice presidents are elected by the electoral college and the public at large, and speakers are not. the senate did not always have a vice president who was of the same party. from the majority party's view, giving power to the vice president to the same degree the majority party in the house might give to the speaker could cause a lot of problems if the vice president was of the other party. so instead, what happens, in the senate, each party established their top party leader whom they elect as effectively the most powerful person in the senate. for the majority party, it is the majority leader. but in the house, the speaker, because the speaker is chosen by the whole house but effectively by the majority party, the majority felt more comfortable giving the speaker more authority. so there is a majority leader, but really, the top leader of the majority party in the house is the speaker of the house. susan: befor

programs like the housing choice voucher program or the housing trust program. the problem is we do not fund these solutions at the scale necessary to meet the need. is more than ever, when it clearer than ever that housing is health care, we have to start funding these solutions. everybody is safely and affordably housed. good morning, host: host: -- roger, tampa, florida. good morning, roger. caller: the number of coronavirus in russia is not believable. they seem to be too low. about a caseard count density of it in mexico, which is right beside america. numberse any accurate about how serious this is in mexico? it does not look serious on the maps. our mexicans coming with or without the virus going to be housed in america as immigrants during the current period? to thei cannot speak accuracy of numbers from russia or mexico for coronavirus. i look to the cdc for accurate numbers. i cannot speak to those numbers. before thehat, even thisavirus occurred we had significant shortage of homes affordable for the lowest income people. now more than ever, we need t

so i'm worried about housing people tell me why? if they can't afford to live here then moved to nevada or india. i have answers but i don't want to hear my answers. >> why should everybody if you cannot afford to live here then why should you why do we have to build housing for you? >> [laughter] for starters a lot of people are born here and have families her here. we are creating a ton of jobs. the streaming revolution is a part of i'm sure a lot of them will stay but we have created tons of jobs not all that many people work in the industry there are other jobs workers and accountants and all these people to make a whole robust economy. but what bothers me about this is big complicated cities like los angeles and san francisco and denver i hesitate to call them secondary cities, that is where prosperity happens no program is better than to lift than a big city with a lot going on. when we start locking people out of those cities because of house prices, i think that is super unfair especially if you think about a look at detroit

so i'm worried about housing people tell me why? if they can't afford to live here then moved to nevada or india. i have answers but i don't want to hear my answers. >> why should everybody if you cannot afford to live here then why should you why do we have to build housing for you? >> [laughter] for starters a lot of people are born here and have families her here. we are creating a ton of jobs. the streaming revolution is a part of i'm sure a lot of them will stay but we have created tons of jobs not all that many people work in the industry there are other jobs workers and accountants and all these people to make a whole robust economy. but what bothers me about this is big complicated cities like los angeles and san francisco and denver i hesitate to call them secondary cities, that is where prosperity happens no program is better than to lift than a big city with a lot going on. when we start locking people out of those cities because of house prices, i think that is super unfair especially if you think about a look at detroit

i remain committed to giving house members 24 hours' notice before the house acts. so again, as far as we know, tomorrow's session, so far in the house, jaust pro forma session. but we will keep you posted. that's set for 11:00 a.m. eastern. mr. mccarthy: good afternoon. as a four, a husband and a son, my first responsibility is to protect the health, the safety and the security of those who i represent. for anyone who is affected with this virus, whether you lost a loved one, maybe you're battling it, maybe you lost your job, what i want to say is we're working for you. that's why i'm glad the senate has come to an agreement an they need to act. they need to act now. for over a week, house republicans have worked with our colleagues in the senate to put together a really bold relief package in this time

chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on for tate of the union further consideration of h.r. 1140 which the clerk will report title. the clerk: a bill to enhance the ecurity operations of the transportation security administration and stability of the transportation security applying the personal system under title 5, united states code, to employees of the transportation security administration who provide screening of all passengers and purposes.nd for other the chair: when the committee of the whole rose on wednesday, 4, 2020, all time for expired.ebate had pursuant to the rule, the bill for be considered amendment under the five-minute rule. the amendment in the nature of a the itute recommended by committee on homeland security printed in the bill shall be adopted.d as the bill, as amounteded -- as amended, shall be considered as for purpose of further amendment under the five-minute rule and shall be considered as read. amendment to the bill, as amended, shall be in rder except those printed in house report 116-411. further amendment may be offered only in the o

we had the white house curator worked for 40 years at the white house. he said i had no expenses and do not believe in them. some of the other ones -- she said i had no experience has with them. -- he said. there was one that looked like a ghost of a teenage boy called the thing during the taft administration. archibald but talks about that story. people said they saw this boy. and taft told his staff, do not let this leak to the press. this is ridiculous. we are not going to talk about it. there are stories, some people say they have seen a specter of a british soldier carrying a torch. that david burns the original landowner the white house is built on, that he shows up and cackles and laughs here and there. andrew jackson the same. it seems everyone saw abraham lincoln's ghost. churchill, that was one of the hyphen may of her that story. churchill was actually naked at the time. and it was sort of like, mr. president, you have come exposed. and the lincoln ghost smirked and disappeared. so there are these different stories. [laughter] during truman's

close as you white house myth number two. white house tunnels. we were just talking about this before class. the existence of tunnels, who used them and why did they use them. so one of the stories that there were tunnels beneath the white that allowed for a quick escape, that one could get all way to the potomac river and that dolley madison used the tunnel to escape to octagon house and abraham lincoln had an tunnel. these are not true. we know the architect of the build severald sewer systems and my guess is that dolley madison wouldn't through the sewer. and these were installed for running water but there really any full-sized tunnels anyone could have used. octagoncourse here's house where the madisons lived for about six months after the theing and it's just down street from the white house. war,during the civil general win field scott did ofgest the possibility adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury treasuryand here's the building down at the bottom and up at the top you have the war department. point it would have been

when he was the housing secretary.e friend's statement, particularly his comments about wanting more people to live in safer, greener, beautiful areas, something i'm sure we would all welcome. but, of course, some people are fortunate enough to live in those areas already and they will be concerned about overdevelopment. several labour mps pressed the housing secretary over the billion pound fund to remove combustible cladding from high—rise buildings. can he confirm it's his intention that no leaseholder should have to pay themselves for the replacement of cladding on their block? leaseholders at the moment are paying an awful lot of money for waking watches. will that be reimbursed as part of this fund? shortly after grenfell, the select committee recommended that all cladding that is not of limited combustibility should be taken off existing buildings of high—rise as well, as banned from new buildings. so the £1 billion is certainly a step in that direction, but i think we want to analyse whether it is sufficient. t

matthew: white house lore. if we go back, there's not really -- it kind of repeats the story verbatim that we know but at least "the washington post" acknowledges that there's lore to it. it may not be entirely true, we're just not sure. what about the final one? any ideas? >> kind of using it as a way to be critical of the president? matthew: how so? >> because it's talking about how they're trying to take down, not because it's old, but they're trying to talk about how he wants to take it out as a negative way to betray the president. matthew: so you think there's a negative portrayal of the president? it seems like this article is pinning blame on melania trump. >> that's why people would read it. matthew: what about the language before jackson magnolia? >> so called. matthew: so called. this is the "new york post." regardless of your politics, you can see how the stories have continued to the present and even when stories are put out there, there are slants to how the story is told. it was very different bu

house. the house coming in to start the legislative day. one bill currently on the agenda, a measure seeking to scombrofere haul the t.s.a.'s personnel system. a possible coronavirus response funding bill that may come to the floor later. take you to the house floor live now here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, first christian church, johnson city, tennessee. the chaplain: let us pray. gracious god. we come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. your authority exceeds all human authority. your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. we come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. for we have sought too often our own power. we have fought too selfishly for our own glory. we have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. we come to you seeking the strength to repent. turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. tu

they wouldd and said get input from the white house and house republicans. they just reconvened a couple of minutes ago to restart that process. we expect the vote by the end of the day. this is a fast-moving bill. the legislation did not come out until last night. a lot of folks are getting familiar with what is in there. we expect democrats to widely support it. house republicans and the white raised a bit of skepticism but have not completely ruled out supporting it. host: nancy pelosi and her office releasing that bill, late yesterday. it is called the family first coronavirus response act. here is what nancy pelosi put out. free coronavirus testing for everyone who need to test, including the uninsured. paid emergency leave with 14 days of paid sick leave and for jean -- up to 30 months of paid medical leave. front-line for workers, including health care workers and other workers for those who are in contact. we are expecting a house floor vote today. where are we on the senate side. has mitch mcconnell brought anything to the floor -- where are we on t

he said housing problems had a social impact.nd secure home, that affects so many other things in your life so i think we need to be thinking about this and more holistic terms and looking at the biggest cost to us and putting a value on that. let with the plan b in holistic terms? the government needs to think and holistic terms because what the system needs is long—term, stable secure funding to create long—term, secure and stable homes. it needs to do that. i have been an ambassador, it is notjust a shelter thing or a homelessness thing, it is an affordability crisis thing and a housing crisis thing. i have been an ambassador and supporter of shelter for many years and i have just seen the problem get worse and worse and worse year on year. and he didn't think getting the private sector to build affordable housing was working. i have sat in many, many, many meetings, far too many when i had developer say i have great news, we got rid of the affordable housing provision and. isn't that fantastic? and my heartjust sinks basicall

, like a cottage house. you can do that now effectively in a line so you were seeing this movement around the country . one of the more radical proposals was here in california where they had a proposal that would allow you to build a four-story apartment building within a half mile of any train stop and also basically built fancy school districts. it's a littlemore complicated but more or less at how it played out . and people flipped out and ed what was interesting about the contours of the flip out if you will is that you had a neighborhood, one of the scenes in the book is a guy from a prominently black, very middle-class neighborhood, beautiful anneighborhood,anybody want to live there . it's got this lovely beach and these lovely boulevards. but so south la and beverly hills are coming together to oppose this and that was true all over the state there were people worried about gentrification, worried about new homes coming in and raising the rent and then another group of people worrying about this neb

steve scalise is the house republican whip. he had a call with his team yesterday and said look him nancy pelosi's other option is to bringhi forward this house bill, a provision republicans rejected. for example, any business that would receive the small business loan would have had to pay $15 minimum wage. there were things in there to make the airlines change their fuel in order to reduce carbon emissions. these are priorities for the left but steve scalise aside the senate bipartisan bill is at best option canan otherwise will drag this out and have pelosi's bring back members to vote on a much more liberal bill. he's encouraging that. pelosi is facing some questions and resistance. she held her own caucus call earlier in the day around 2 p.m. where members were questioning whether her and her liberal party would be in this pic she's facing skepticism of her own left flank but we'll see if she can pull it together. it's been very hard to achieve, louis gohmert was able to delay a procedure on the earlier bill. to remind you

it is housing. i've been saying for years that to encourage the construction of more homes that afford.s can we need to build more homes of our ypes and sizes for all neighbors. now, affordable housing advocates and economists and and lenders and countless others have come together to try to begin to this problem, now a crisis, and there are a few common themes beginning to from their research. ne is -- one of these common themes is that certain zoning and land use policies are egatively impacting construction and affordable housing supply. governments, local governments regulate zoning and land use policy and we shouldn't be doing that here. what this bill is about. the fact of the matter is, communities experience different housing.to one size doesn't fit all, so we shouldn't be getting in that but the impact of zoning and land use policies on significant. as certain regulations increased, they resulted in homes and unaffordable housing cost increasing for everyone. hardest hit being low-income pe

house and senate and house doctor said at the endl of this told, we could have millions and millions of people who contract ts virus. that what we are doing now is just mitigation. that what we're trying to do is -- ire you've seen this flatten the curve phrase what we're simply trying to do is prevent a spike in the number of cases. and to kee it consistent so that we're able to treat people in the hospitals. but the president did notpeak to some of the most important concerns that americans have today which is timiarng. whethose tests going to be online? i know for a fact people are going to hospital -- hospitals, e.r. rooms, and not able to get tests. even when they're showing symptoms today. secondly, the equipment. he said that they were going to be sening -- buying up new equipment and ventilators. is it going to be enough? because fauci ominously was quiet about whether we're on e same track for italy right now. and italy is a horrible disaster. weave fewer hospital beds per capita than the italians do. so these are the things looking forward, you know, just saying don't worry

pursuant to section 7-b of house resolution 891, the house stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on monday, march 16,

we finally got a completed bill from the house yesterday. ensuringo continue that frontline health-care workers have all the resources they need. we need to directly help american workers and families face this uncertain. we are examining policy tools to put money directly and quickly into the hands of american families. we also need to move swiftly and boldly in a major way to help american small businesses survive this disruption and thrive. we are preparing bold steps to ensure main street can access and credit during this extraordinary time. let me outline what we are doing. created three and task forces among senate republicans. with coming tasked up with what should be described as the next bill. we are trying to reach an as to what senate republicans and the administration favor doing next. with regard to the bill that came over from the house, there was some discussion whether to amend that because we all know the bigger proposal is necessary, but i have decided we will go a long as soon as the senate can get permission to ,ote on th

programs like the housing choice voucher program or the housing trust program. the problem is we do not fund these solutions at the scale necessary to meet the need. is more than ever, when it clearer than ever that housing is health care, we have to start funding these solutions. everybody is safely and affordably housed. good morning, host: host: -- roger, tampa, florida. good morning, roger. caller: the number of coronavirus in russia is not believable. they seem to be too low. about a caseard count density of it in mexico, which is right beside america. numberse any accurate about how serious this is in mexico? it does not look serious on the maps. our mexicans coming with or without the virus going to be housed in america as immigrants during the current period? to thei cannot speak accuracy of numbers from russia or mexico for coronavirus. i look to the cdc for accurate numbers. i cannot speak to those numbers. before thehat, even thisavirus occurred we had significant shortage of homes affordable for the lowest income people. now more than ever, we need t

the house is about to gavel in. this is part of c-span's 40-year you tment of bringing gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. today they are working on two reunify korean americans with relatives in north korea. coverage here on c-span. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend alisa lasater wailoo. from the capitol hill united methodist church, here in washington, d.c. the chaplain: let us pray. all knowing and all loving god, before we pray for the work of the people's house, let us pray for the people within. thank you, god, for the gifts and graces of each american working here. members, staffers, administrators, and more. you know the good that can be done through us. you also know, god, that despite someone's position or power, personal pain can seep in. be with those among us even in this chamber, struggling with depression, wrestling with a broken relationship, or hiding some other hurt. help us listen and walk with each other in a personal way. out of that same compassion, guide our pol

no job was born in this house in 1483. provides firms to not climb up to early as 1583 for the 100th anniversary of the spurs a large sign was posted on the house where he was born to inform visitors you can see that even back then the lutheran pilgrims came to isolate. the exhibition and looked as birth house is devoted to the religious reformers origin's the little memorials in vietnam back and ice laban are authentic settings and decisive events in the reformation they offer an insight into the life and works of martin not a. viable castle near eyes enough in the state of tooling and is also closely associated with martin luther. he found refuge here after he published his thesis and then was excommunicated by the pope and outlawed by the holy roman emperor. the castles foundations were laid in about 1067 and the building has great symbolic historical importance st elizabeth of hungary who was later canonized for her services to the sick and the poor lived here in the 13th century. the castle is also said to have been t

it goes over to the house side and then the house is not in session. they would like to do it by unanimous consent and that's a challenge. but the good news is after the partisan proposal was put on the table by the gop sunday, we spent the last days not only advocating for senate democratic priorities but we definitely included the house democratic leadership to maximize the chance that when the senate acts, the house can also act quickly. speaker pelosi has said she believes this bill is good enough from her standpoint that they should be able to do it on a voice vote unanimous consent. my hope is that they will but i can only really guarantee on the senate side, you will see us pass this bill today. >> one of the issues is they have less than a day. they could come back tomorrow under an emergency procedure but it doesn't seem like she has that unanimous consent nailed down to warrant bringing people back, minus those hospitalized, the three that we know of, bringing them back across the country in some cases. >> and that is -- again, i have my own

, levies, gatherings at the white house and other boarding houses, so that in the high season, in those winter months, january, february, march, congressmen would attend multiple social gatherings a week in addition to the terms of the alcohol consumption, the daily consumption that took place at work and at home. host: that included everything from a madeira wine to hard cider to whiskey, i suppose. dr. balcerski: yeah, and one thinks about the wide variety of options for consuming alcohol, one wonders if there was mixing of alcohol consumption. what i find is the type of alcohol one consumed was probably less various than we might think. there were only a few basic kinds of alcohol consumed at this time. you mentored three of them. yes, hard cider was more regionally popular in the north because apples were more common in the north. john adams started his day with the tankard of hard cider. that was on the decline. because washington was not as proximate to the production of cider. it was more recently consumed. whiskey, by contrast, was that drink that traveled most easily. and parti

access to housing came through public housing. public housing was my community. they are the people that raised me when we didn't have daycares. when we didn't have places to play. we had the kids in the community. something has changed. people that used to be here are no longer here. it is time to change that. it is time as we move forward with rehabilitation of public housing that as we develop new properties that we are not doing it for the people who we anticipate are coming here, that we are doing it for the people who are already here andy serve to live in better conditions. today is a glorious day. i don't want to go over. some of the challenges of the conditions that exist i am excited the city is doing what it should have done a long time ago. it could have prevented a lot of things from happening in the first place. here we are signing legislation that provides the security that people need to know that when we come into a community and say we are going to work with you and then you have a new unit and trust us, well, now here is the legislation to ensu

house. en in the following order. motions to suspend the rules and 387 to house resolution and pass h.r. 4508. first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will e conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, he unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. suspend the rules and agree to house resolution which the nded, on yeas and nays are ordered. title.rk will report the the clerk: house resolution 387, continued condemning violence against civilians by armed groups in the central african republic and supporting lasting o achieve a political solution to the conflict. the speaker pro tempore: the uestion is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 387, as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representativ

and also governors a saying they need guidance from the white house so the white house pu out recommendedngs they wanted people to do, inclupeding don't do --up go in a g of larger than 10 people but you've seen governors take extra stems, saying we're closing down all ourars and restaurants. as the governor of new york was saying, this is a mandate and we'll lawfully enforce that that's not whathi the house is doing. they're giving guidance but not and i'm toldy some that that's a republican principal. they don't want to be seen as the federal government directing states to do things. robert: eamon, when you're covering companies, what matters in your reporting about how they're helping states trying produce new ventilators and masks? eamon: you are seeing some companies responding to thisth d e are some companies in a weird way benefiting. companies like walmart, ouer hiring workers right now because of the enormouslo stical capacity they have and a lot of companies are looking intohis idea of can they starto produce these ventilators wch look like they're going to be in extreme shortag

they wanted to revolt against this house bill.re hearing from their constituents, ceos in their states and in their districts, and they're looking at a massive stimulus economic-type program in the coming weeks to bail out industries, battered industries from hotels to airlines. they're looking even seriously at senator romney's proposal, which is similar to andrew yang's, universal basic income proposal. romney's proposal, his plan would be a stipend, $1,000 in one instance, not over the course of many years. >> so to the undramatic mr. costa, i ask this. it sounds like some folks do get that this has the power to reshape this crisis, has the power to reshape parts of this country economically for a good, long while. >> it's hard to understate, brian, how many republicans who run the national gop take their cues from wall street, from business leaders. and these business leaders have not come to their door in this fashion since 2008, and that's privately talking to senators tonight. they feel even if they're not business savvy le

gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house and take you live to the floor of the house. to make corrections in the engrossment of h.r. 6201. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to consideration of the resolution? mr. gohmert: i would reserve the right to object. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman is recognized is recognized. mr. gohmert: we have rushed this bill to the floor, i would say rush, it had been all day thing thursday and event on friday and most of us were not part of the negotiations. we kept getting different versions of the bill that was going to be coming to the floor and at 9:00, i got the latest rendition and had read that. and read a lot of notes and tags and things that i was concerned about and i thought that what we were going to be voting on that night. and there was a new version before midnight and voted at 12:30. i had concerns about some of the wording and as president obama, elections have consequences. the majority is going to get a whole lot in the bill than the minority. there were concerns about matters and very concerned ab

we have a shortage of housing. in order to get the f-35's to be located here and bernie sanders was a main leader of this, we had to take out at least $10 million worth of housing. housing wasw income bulldozed because bernie wanted f-35's. well the f-35's are totally capable of carrying nuclear weapons. for peace.was he always said i don't want the proliferation of nuclear weapons and we said bernie, then you can't have it both ways. he goes, they are coming. end of story. and all these people that have supported bernie, that's why he only got 50% of the vote this time in the primaries. talk on one side of his mouth and he will say another thing to his constituents. host: this is the story from july of last year. bernie sanders faces backlash over the $1.2 trillion war machine he brought to vermont. >> in my non-virus and nonpresidential life i cover what happens outside the beltway and to her point, one of the themes that's cropping up in cities around the country is a lack of affordable housing. and i'm not just

we are also in support of other transitional housing stopgaps to bridge when we actually have housing for folks. i do want to stay the navigation centers often end up being used for reasons of enforcement around them. i'm always cautious when i see these things come up, because it gets promised to the residents, well, we'll create a clear zone or something like that, and it's promising to your constituents that you can't deliver. the city does sweep people every single day and every single night, and they come back. it may not be the same people, but there's no place to go. there's thousands of people that are caught outside the shelter system. so we support navigation centers, we support other transitional facilities, but we also want to make sure that this does not get used to promise housed people that their complaints will be responded to regarding unhoused people. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jordan, and let's talk about homeless shelters. i've been in a conventional shelter in philly, and it was like a mini prison. i home that navigation center replace sh

they live in the big corner house here. the office is two houses down. anley has to re-create appropriately presidential space that will in some way come close to what she had at the white house in this rented townhouse where they live for the rest of the presidency. i am writing an article right now on how she does that so stay tuned. this house survives into the 1970's. here it is into the early 1900s. -- for sale in the 1970's. their house is demolished for this building. two of the houses on the road are still there. they have been incorporated and are part of the mexican embassy. there is a sign. they are known as the seven buildings because it is a row of seven townhouses. only the facade of two survive in the mexican embassy. at the time james becomes president, they for the second to --n large montpelier montpelier by adding two wings. they create these important landscape features of a grove of trees on one side and a neoclassical temple that is also an icehouse on the others with a double row of pine trees between the north end of the house and

and we are looking for a way to write about this white house. it was just a way that nobody had really done before. and i think it illuminates an aspect of how this white house functions that had not been eliminated to before. it does mean that i think that woodward or white house reporter, is like wrong in the way they're going about it. this is what everybody is doing and i would rather we would rather take the unique approach to the tell the story that is accurate and also well done. like whether president obama or bush or clinton trump, i have always well for a long time and just like that there there was dignity. according to the office of the president in the west wing that reporters seem to find fault view their reporting as if these are people and institutions to be respected. i think whoever the president of the united states is them i think dennis bad for you reporting an event respective to have as a political reporter, i think it is especially indicted when the burglar is president of the united states. respectability is gone . there

we recommended that to the committee. >> same house, same call? >> different house, mr. president. we need a role call. >> role call, please. (role call). >> without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, i see it's 2:32, so let's go to our 2:30 item. >> we have commendations from five members beginning with president yi, supervisor stephanie, safaye, mandelman. >> we have several commendations. let's try to keep every commendation to less than five minutes so that we are respectful of every one's time. so thank you all for being here today. the first person that i would like to bring up is my commendation, ken rich. are you in the room? [cheers and applause] we wanted to recognise you for all of your years of services. for the past 24 years, ken has served at the san francisco office of economic and workforce development and at the planning department and for the past ten years, he has been director of the department of -- director of development at oewd and a principal adviser on planning and development issues. t.ken has lead the city's team n a series

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 394, the nays are 13. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to -- the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 395, the nays are 13, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and resolution is agreed to and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, on which yeas and nays are ordered. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.

. >> the house and senate are in today. members of the house begin in just a minute with speeches. they will work today on four bills. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. march 2, 2020. i hereby appoint the honorable ed case to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate -- submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate between the parties with time equally alocaled between the parties. no neevent shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from puerto rico, miss gonzalez-colon, for five minutes. miss gonzalez-colon: thank you, mr. speaker. on this day, 1917, puerto ricans became american citizens. 19 years after coming

next, remarks on the senate floor of the house passed coronavirus economic aid package starting with majority leader mcconnell, he said it should include assistance to families and workers, help for small businesses and help for medical professionals. >> is a global outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to grow, it's on american families and small businesses continues to scale up, school closures are challenging both parents and teachers. childcare clover john closures arc complicating life even further. main street small businesses and their employers are grappling with unprecedented situation where their local leaders are effectively winding down their businesses for a period of time through no fault of their own. major industries that our nation relies on have seen business virtually dry up overnight. again, not due to any business decision they made, but because of appropriate directives from public health experts. and, madam president, most important of all, our healthcare system and our doctors, nurses, and other frontline professionals are gearing up for what seems very li

white house myth number two, white house tunnels. in fact, we were just talking about this before class the existence of tunnels who used them and why did they use them. so, one of the stories there were tunnels beneath the white house that allowed for a quick escape, that one could actually get all the way to the potomac river and that dolly madison used the tunnel to escape the octagon house and lincoln had an escape tunnel. unfortunately these are not true. the architect of the white house did build james hoeng, several sewor systems. dolly madison probably wouldn't have climbed through the sewor. she wouldn't have wanted to travel that way. and these were installed for running water but there really weren't any full-size tunnels anyone could have used. now, here of course is octagon house the madisons lived for six months after the burning. and it's just down the street from the white house. now, during the civil war, genuinefield scott did suggest the possibility of adding a tunnel between the white house and the treasury buildi

by democrats and republicans, house and senate, to 8.3 billion. congress is now working quickly on a second package. it should get the same quick response from ourur republican senators. >> president trump had chance after chance to get ahead of thisav coronavirus pandemic in e united states pretty failed. dcongress cannot make the same mistake. it senators should not leave town, senator mcconnell on the floor, his decision, one senator from one state to make this decision to walk away, to fail to take care of the 12-dollar an hour worker who is sick, less to choose between going to work, and perhaps getting sicker and perhaps affectin and infected o. when she struggles with her rent, we put her the position and senator mcconnell can make the standing, his office is just down the hall, you can make that universal lateral decision actually do the decision. we should allss leave town until he passed the house package jail partners in support of communities and president trump need to sign it. we need to do our jobs, we need to care of the workers, w

watch congress, white house briefings, and updates from governors. track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps. watch on demand any time, unfiltered at -span.org/coronavirus. >> now today's prime minister question time with british leader boris johnson. he fields questions on his government's response to the coronavirus outbreak in an extended session. this lasts about an hour. haust n trading. i think the prime minister is here. >> order. i've a short statement to make. it is exceptional. i will hold primaries is questions to 1:00. it will serve as separate statements on the situation of coronavirus. i will alert the leader of opposition two sets of questions of six which i expected to be taken in two sets. similar, i will alert the leader of the second largest party four questions. i will also essentially call for the questions from opposition front bench. in order to maximize participation can ask the short questions and short answers. we now start prime minister's questions. >> question number one come mr. speaker. >>

let's go to the white house right now, our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, you're hearing the president is losing patience with some of the restrictions now in place? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and we should report, a source close to the coronavirus task force says dr. anthony fauci, one of the administration's top medical experts, is continuing to recommend appropriate public health measures to combat the pandemic, even as white house officials, including president trump, are toying with the idea of scaling back on these social social distancing guidelines. the source said everything is on the table including easing back on these measures. but fauci, the source said, is trying to steer officials toward the safest path. with an economy that's all but shut down and wall street teetering on the edge, president trump appears to be toying with the idea of easing the nation's 15-day social distancing period, aimed at flattening the deadly curve of the coronavirus. the president tweeted, we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. at the en

all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery.very week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000

to say california has a housing problem is an understatement. crisis is the word many use to describe the situation. one reason -- affordability. the median price for a home there is more than half a million dollars. and rental rates for one and two bedroom apartments in san francisco, oakland, and san jose are among the highest in the nation. averaging between 2600 to 4500 dollars per month. for a two-bedroom. the state's also dealing with a homeless crisis. and during our listening tour it by in the bay area, on a six figure salary. >> in california's latest gold rush- someone's struck it rich. new construction everywhere- new multi-millionaires are snapping up every house that hits the market, and making it just about impossible for old-timers like t-bird and her human steve to afford a home. how do you live now? >> how do i live? oh, just a sleeping place. i store some food here, i can make coffee here, no big deal. it's kinda like camping. >> steve didn't want his face shown, but he's lived in his '85 dodge van here for nearly three years.

and what the white house is doing ord saying. >>. >> mercury is a man credited opening the white house briefing and has since regretted his decision due to so much posturing for the cameras on both sides. >> he has change that now he sent ae letter. and with those press briefings number one just a few weeks ago and with the tele band and coronavirus and so much and not having a pre- one - - a press briefing and is not just american people are not given the information they have no clue. and then you don't have the press asking and then to ask questions to flush issues out. this is not a grudge match. it is about humanity and giving people information that they need and back and forth right now just on coronavirus alone it is life-and-death. everything comes to the white house war and peace and everything in between. everything is spoken in that building. >>host: the next call w w from michael in new a york. >>caller:ca hello. i will say something it's not mean-spirited but the k,fortunate incident and ferguson april and many other black journalist and democrats were saying this happene